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Fuhrer

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Meaning leader or leader of the nazi party

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Gestapo

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The secret police of Germany

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Nuremberg laws

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Set of laws that limited Jews freedom

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Axis powers

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Side Germany was on

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Nazi

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Member of the national socialist German workers party

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Spanish Civil War

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Pre cursor to WW2 where everyone tested armies prior to fighting

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Brown shirts

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German fascists (nazi’s)

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Coup

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Highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move.

A clever action or accomplishment

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Schutzstaffel

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Hitlers security force that protected Germany in numerous ways

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Appeasement

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A policy of making concessions to an enemy power to avoid conflict

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Rome-Berlin axis

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Agreement between Mussolini and Hitler

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Munich conference

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Emergency conference in Europe that hitter called to deal with his demands in Europe.
Mussolini, British PM chatlain, and French premier attended.
Hitler said he wanted Sudetenland and bat was it so chatlain gave in and hitter had the confidence he needed to take over heartland

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Black shirts

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Italian fascists

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Mein Kampf

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My struggle. hitlers autobiography that outlines his plans for Germany

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Anti-semitism

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Hostility toward Jews

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Rhineland

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De-militarized land between France and Germany where Hitler set up posts up the border so no one could enter Germany

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Axis

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Germany, Japan, and Italy Powers

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Swastika

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Symbol of the nazi party and ancient Buddhist symbol for good fortune

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Propaganda

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Influence of thoughts or beliefs through advertisement

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Kristallnacht

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A massive coordinated attack on the Jews on November 9th 1938 where they attacked Jewish businesses and such
“Night of the broken glass”

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Sudetenland

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Areas of Czechoslovakia that hitler got from France and Britain on condition he wouldn’t go to war with them

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Anschluss

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Was the nazi propaganda term for the invasion of Austria by nazi Germany